Jenna Bush Hager Shows Off 'Party Trick' of Making Husband Henry Hager 'Get on All Fours' to Ride Him

Mar. 15, 2025

Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb show off Bush Hager’s ‘Bucking Bronco’ moves on ‘Today with Hoda & Jenna’.Photo:TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube (2)

TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube (2)

Jenna Bush Hagerhas a unique “party trick” involving her husband,Henry Hager, and occasionally her twin sister,Barbara Pierce Bush.“I used to do a thing where I’d make my husband get on all fours and I’d ride him across the dance floor,” Bush Hager, 43, revealed on the Dec. 9 episode ofToday with Hoda & Jenna. “It’s called the ‘Bucking Bronco.’ Usually my sister would get on the back too.”The reveal came during a lightning round question and answer session with co-hostHoda Kotband guestsParis HiltonandNicole Richie. Bush Hager, who shares kidsMila, 11,Poppy, 9, andHal, 5, with her husband, went on to share a demonstration of the dance floor move with the help of Kotb, 60.Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb demonstrate her dance move in front of Paris Hilton.TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube“You have a skirt on, you can’t do it,” Kotb told her co-host. But that didn’t seem to bother Bush Hager, who ordered Kotb to get down on all fours in her royal blue pantsuit.The duo then showed off the move as Kotb made her way across the floor with Bush Hager on her back as if she were a bucking bronco.“We have to start doing that,” Richie said of the move. “I think Paris and I are going to start stealing that.”Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager attend The George H.W. Bush Points Of Light Awards Gala at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on Sept. 26, 2019 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/GettyThis isn’t the firstrowdy revelationBush Hager has shared on the morning show recently. On Dec. 5, she opened up about being a college freshman when her dad,George W. Bush, was elected president in 2000.“On Election Day, they were like, ‘Girl, we gotta get some ‘mind erasers’ because we just can’t deal,’ ” Bush Hager recalled of her then-roommates, explaining that “mind erasers” were a popular shot in the early aughts. “‘We gotta get you some mind erasers because who knows what’s gonna happen tonight?’ ”She continued, “So I had one, and my mind didn’t erase.”Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager on a date night together.Jenna Bush Hager/InstagramThe group also enjoyed a pre-inauguration outing to Mexico to celebrate Bush Hager’s final days of “freedom.”Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“The weekend before I got Secret Service, they were like, ‘Can we take you out?’ “ she recalled her roommates asking. “And I’m like, ‘Sure, what should we do?’ They were like, ‘We’re driving to Mexico!’ ”She continued, “It was legal to drink there, so it felt safer. There was a bar with a slide, that’s all I remember. Thank God I’m alive. Thank you, God.”

Jenna Bush Hagerhas a unique “party trick” involving her husband,Henry Hager, and occasionally her twin sister,Barbara Pierce Bush.

“I used to do a thing where I’d make my husband get on all fours and I’d ride him across the dance floor,” Bush Hager, 43, revealed on the Dec. 9 episode ofToday with Hoda & Jenna. “It’s called the ‘Bucking Bronco.’ Usually my sister would get on the back too.”

The reveal came during a lightning round question and answer session with co-hostHoda Kotband guestsParis HiltonandNicole Richie. Bush Hager, who shares kidsMila, 11,Poppy, 9, andHal, 5, with her husband, went on to share a demonstration of the dance floor move with the help of Kotb, 60.

Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb demonstrate her dance move in front of Paris Hilton.TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube

TODAY with Hoda & Jenna/YouTube

“You have a skirt on, you can’t do it,” Kotb told her co-host. But that didn’t seem to bother Bush Hager, who ordered Kotb to get down on all fours in her royal blue pantsuit.

The duo then showed off the move as Kotb made her way across the floor with Bush Hager on her back as if she were a bucking bronco.

“We have to start doing that,” Richie said of the move. “I think Paris and I are going to start stealing that.”

Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager attend The George H.W. Bush Points Of Light Awards Gala at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on Sept. 26, 2019 in New York City.Jamie McCarthy/Getty

This isn’t the firstrowdy revelationBush Hager has shared on the morning show recently. On Dec. 5, she opened up about being a college freshman when her dad,George W. Bush, was elected president in 2000.

“On Election Day, they were like, ‘Girl, we gotta get some ‘mind erasers’ because we just can’t deal,’ ” Bush Hager recalled of her then-roommates, explaining that “mind erasers” were a popular shot in the early aughts. “‘We gotta get you some mind erasers because who knows what’s gonna happen tonight?’ ”

She continued, “So I had one, and my mind didn’t erase.”

Jenna Bush Hager and Henry Hager on a date night together.Jenna Bush Hager/Instagram

Jenna Bush Hager/Instagram

The group also enjoyed a pre-inauguration outing to Mexico to celebrate Bush Hager’s final days of “freedom.”

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“The weekend before I got Secret Service, they were like, ‘Can we take you out?’ “ she recalled her roommates asking. “And I’m like, ‘Sure, what should we do?’ They were like, ‘We’re driving to Mexico!’ ”

She continued, “It was legal to drink there, so it felt safer. There was a bar with a slide, that’s all I remember. Thank God I’m alive. Thank you, God.”

source: people.com